Database Administration (DBA) Services
Latnus knows that your company’s success depends on how well you know and manage your data. So we place the management, access, and protection of your data at the core of our database technologies business. With our database administration services in place, you can unleash your organization’s potential to reach more customers and build even more successes.
Database Administration Done Right
Your data defines everything your company touches, so you need a team of DBA experts to ensure you’re doing everything you can to make the most of its value. Latnus provides the DBA expertise, services, and strategies to ensure your organization uses its data to the fullest extent possible so you can maximize all your other corporate assets, too.
Complex Database Migration Services
Latnus’s database migration services include the database migration tools and expertise you need to complete a move to your next database using failsafe procedures to avoid common pitfalls.
Common Database Migration Projects
Latnus’s database migration experts can perform a variety of complex data migration projects including:
Developing a migration strategy. It’s critical to define a strategy to control the process and ensure that every step follows your organization’s specifications.
Mapping and transferring old data. Using the best practices for Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Latnus will identify and remove bad data while cleaning good data.
Ensuring data integrity. A thorough review of data and applications is necessary before the migration.
Implementing a database modeling procedure. This process finds, highlights, and eliminates errors or other issues before migration occurs.
Implementing version control. Version, or source control, in the database will ensure it remains synchronized and consistent with your application source code.
Providing testing and maintenance. Latnus will be there during the migration to perform ongoing testing and maintenance to ensure a successful migration.
Database Assessments & Health Checks
Optimize Your Database with Our Expert Recommendations
In any company, a baseline is an important starting point for all parties to agree upon and shape future plans. Latnus’s database assessment is that baseline.
Because of the breadth of work that Latnus’s senior-level database administrators perform on a daily basis, they are ideal experts at leading the effort to conduct a detailed database health check of your SQL Server, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, MySQL, DB2, MongoDB or PostgreSQL environment.
Whether you have a small environment that can be assessed in one day or a large complex environment that requires a team of experts diving into the details for months, Latnus can provide key insights, short- and long-term database recommendations, optimization opportunities and information on alternative database approaches to your environment.
Database (DBA) Consulting Services
Latnus’s database consulting services provide your business with the expertise and delivery flexibility that you need from DBA consultants you can trust.
Flexible Database Consulting Engagements
No matter what your business needs are, Latnus’s flexible consulting engagement offerings can be tailored to match your unique specifications. Let us bring value to your organization with our client focused delivery options including:
Project-Based: You may not have the resources you need to complete database projects. Adding a DBA consultant, architect or database developer from Latnus gives you the opportunity to acquire the specific talent you need and keep your databases up to speed.
Temporary Consulting: Latnus can offer fractional resources and flex your service level up and down as your needs evolve.
Long-Term Partnership: Onboard Latnus and get the support of a highly experienced DBA for a specific database, infrastructure, application, or other IT end-to-end project.
Database Development & Design Solutions
Data Modeling, Design, and Implementation from Expert DBAs
A database is more than just a collection of tables, schemas, queries, and reports; it is the backbone of your entire enterprise.
In order for your enterprise to function properly, a well-structured and logical database that contains the necessary data is essential for growth and success.
Database Documentation Services
Reduce Risk & Ensure Data Accessibility
Proper database documentation is an often overlooked yet critical aspect of maintaining order amidst the chaos in a database environment.
Documenting the complete database schema, including necessary steps, procedures, functions, and routines is thus necessary to reduce the risk of failure and ensure all information and data is accessible to the necessary parties.
Database Lifecycle Management Solutions
A Continuous Delivery Solution for your Enterprise
Database Lifecycle Management is a set of processes that allows an organization to develop, improve, and adapt to the changes that occur throughout the life of the database.
This in turn allows for improved efficiency, resource management, visibility, scalability, and collaboration between teams with the goal of reducing costs, improving quality, and bringing continuous delivery to the entire lifecycle of the database.
Database Monitoring Services & Solutions
Datavail Database Monitoring Enhancements
Our highly secure HTTPS protocols ensure the safety and security of all your corporate information. We’ve also shared alert dependencies across several servers, so there’s always a path to our support.
Other customer service enhancements include:
– A customizable ‘notes to Datavail’ port for more accessible communications.
– Lightweight independent server agents.
– A faster, easier setup procedure to protect your organization as quickly as possible.
Database (DBA) Project Management Services
Drive Your Database to Meet Your Technical and Business Needs
Latnus has extensive experience planning and implementing database projects to meet your technical and business needs.
While database consulting companies may dictate the right path, Latnus’s DBA experts integrate themselves into your internal team to understand your company and develop a practical solution best suited to your environment and business goals.
You will save the time of developing a new database project plan and money in avoiding the pitfalls of new implementations while also ensuring that your company’s unique needs are met.
All database projects are unique, requiring an in-depth understanding of the project at hand and the database environment. The project assignments can range from subsections of a larger project or entire departmental initiatives. They can be driven by application needs or developmental efforts. Projects can be forecasted strategically or can be an immediate unanticipated need. Regardless, Latnus offers the database project support that can react, plan and implement any type of DBA project.
Database Tuning Services
Proactive Tuning, Optimization, and Support for Your Databases
Database tuning is a blend of art and science that not all DBAs can accomplish.
When considering the various database designs, configurations and usages within complex IT environments, it is critical to trust in a DBA expert that has substantial experience providing database tuning and optimization effectively.
Proactive database tuning is at the core of Latnus’s best practices and is a key differentiator from our competitors. Once teamed up with our DBAs, you are no longer limited to just reactive tuning. We believe that quality service is to continually suggest, test and implement tuning changes to your database, server or instance simultaneously while your internal DBA team can work on other priorities.
Database Upgrades Solutions
Common End-of-Life Upgrades and Support for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, & More
Our administrators perform the latest database upgrades across multiple database environments every day using best practice methods, tech-enabled IP testing, configuration and fallback routines.
We service any version, any operating system, any complexity – and have seen and completed it already in more than 1,000 upgrades we have performed in the past three years.
Latnus is unique in its capacity to design, document, articulate from continual upgrade scenarios and shared intellect to quickly get your solution in place.
Database Staffing Services
Dedicated Onsite and Remote DBAs for Your Organization
We are a full service database services organization that has built a robust community of DBA experts across the country.
Because of this specialization, many clients have turned to us to find specialized expertise, additional DBA capacity or other database staff augmentation needs. It is our mission to provide the best database staffing support to our customers with a delivery design that meets their needs as an organization.
Latnus has acquired an extensive network of DBAs across many competencies and geographies. Through our extensive DBA recruiting process, we are proud to offer this staffing service to our clients and are confident that our technical vetting process will ensure that you receive the best candidate possible.
In addition to our DBA staffing services, we also offer a 24×7 database support team on demand to step in if required. All of our DBAs on-site come equipped with the support of Latnus’s remote team to provide additional capabilities, such as escalation and troubleshooting and additional technical validation or manpower when it is required.
Database DevOps Services, Solutions & Implementation
Applying Agile Practices for Rapid Database Deployment and Automation
Latnus’s expert DevOps DBAs allow you to achieve rapid database deployment and automation through database version control, the development of effective processes and tools, data replication, and lifecycle management.
Latnus will ensure that “agile practices” apply to your databases, similar to how they apply to application development, through the implementation of critical processes and technology, thus allowing you to effectively and efficiently manage the flow of your information system’s data with a comprehensive database lifecycle management approach.
Remote Database Administration (DBA) Services & Support
Gain peace of mind and operational stability from experienced, trusted technical help.
When your databases are down, Latnus’s remote database administration services are here around the clock to bail you out.
Database Support Services
Proactive and Reactive Database Management from Expert DBAs
Latnus’s database support team becomes part of your database environment to provide unprecedented 24x7x365 service.